Famous American naval officers
By: by Charles Lee Lewis ...
Edition: Rev. ed.
Series: Famous leaders series
Publisher: L.C. Page & Company incorporated
Published: 1945
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
Subjects: United States. Navy -- Biography.; United States. Navy -- History.
Notes: "Second impression, January, 1945."
Table of contents: title: Paul Jones and the beginning of our Navy.; title: Stephen Decatur and the Barbary corsairs.; title: Isaac Hull and "Old Ironsides."; title: David Porter and the cruise of the Essex.; title: Oliver Hazard Perry and the war on the Great Lakes.; title: Thomas Macdonough and the battle of Lake Champlain.; title: Matthew Calbraith Perry and the awakening of Japan.; title: David Glasgow Farragut and the Civil War.; title: Alfred Thayer Mahan, the historian of sea power.; title: Robert Edwin Peary and naval exploration.; title: George Dewey and the war with Spain.; title: William Sowden Sims and our navy in the First World War.; title: Ernest Joseph King and the Second World War.; title: A selected bibliography (p. 401-404)